EXPIRATION
\ɛkspəɹˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɛkspəɹˈeɪʃən], \ɛ_k_s_p_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXPIRATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
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The last emission of breath; death.
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A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
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That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
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The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; - opposed to inspiration.
By Oddity Software
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Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
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The last emission of breath; death.
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A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
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That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
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The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; - opposed to inspiration.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of emitting air from the lungs ; the act of emitting volatile substances from the lungs, or from any internal cavity.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Breathing out, exhalation. The act of expelling the air from the lungs. In ordinary tranquil breathing, e. is accomplished
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by gravity and the elasticity of the thorax, both of which tend to bring the ribs back to the position occupied before inspiration;
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by the elasticity of the lungs:
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by the elasticity of the abdominal walls and viscera which arch the relaxed diaphragm back into the thorax. In this way the thorax is narrowed in its three diameters and the air is forced from the lungs.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
